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Dans ce livre, le prix Nobel d’économie Edmund Phelps s’interroge : pourquoi les nations prospèrent-elles ? Qu’est-ce qui menace aujourd’hui les sources de cette prospérité en Europe et aux États-Unis ? Revenant sur l’incroyable décollage qu’ont connu les pays européens et l’Amérique entre 1820 et 1860, Edmund Phelps montre que celui-ci n’a pas seulement entraîné un enrichissement matériel sans précédent : il a également contribué à l’épanouissement de larges pans de la société. Le secret de cette réussite exceptionnelle, Phelps l’attribue aux valeurs modernes, qui sont les ressorts profonds de l’innovation : curiosité, désir de créer, goût du défi… L’innovation n’est pas seulement le fait de quelques visionnaires isolés, tels Henry Ford ou Steve Jobs : elle concerne des millions d’individus prêts à concevoir, à développer et à commercialiser de nouveaux produits et services. Comment renouer aujourd’hui avec l’innovation de masse et la croissance qui l’accompagne ? C’est tout l’enjeu de ce livre, qui montre de manière magistrale comment s’articulent enrichissement collectif et aspirations individuelles. Un livre très concret et de grande envergure intellectuelle.
Economic History --- Economics --- Developed countries --- Economic conditions --- Économie politique. --- Développement économique --- Capitalisme --- Histoire. --- Effets des innovations technologiques. --- Economic development --- Economie politique --- Economie politique et politique --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Aspect social --- Développement économique --- Sociological aspects. --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - 19th century --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - 20th century
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"Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the 'nationalism of the rich,' defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic 'exploitation' suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and supposedly carried out by the populations of poorer regions and/or by inefficient state administrations. The book argues that the nationalism of the rich can be seen as a rhetorical strategy portraying independent statehood as a solution to the dilemma between solidarity and efficiency arisen in Western Europe since the end of the glorious thirties"--Provided by publisher.
Rhetoric --- Political aspects --- Europe --- Catalonia (Spain) --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Italy, Northern --- Scotland --- Nationalism --- Europe, Western --- Developed countries --- Politics and government --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Economic conditions --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Case studies. --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Europe, Western - Case studies --- Europe - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Catalonia (Spain) - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Flanders (Belgium) - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Italy, Northern - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Scotland - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Nationalism - Europe, Western - Case studies --- Europe, Western - Politics and government - Case studies --- Developed countries - Politics and government - Case studies --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - Case studies
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Pension reform is high on the policy agenda of many advanced and emerging market economies. In advanced economies the challenge is generally to contain future increases in public pension spending as the population ages. In emerging market economies, the challenges are often different. Where pension coverage is extensive, the issues are similar to those in advanced economies. Where pension coverage is low, the key challenge will be to expand coverage in a fiscally sustainable manner. This volume examines the outlook for public pension spending over the coming decades and the options for reform in 52 advanced and emerging market economies.
Pensions --- Compensation --- Pension plans --- Retirement pensions --- Superannuation --- Retirement income --- Annuities --- Social security individual investment accounts --- Vested benefits --- E-books --- Developed countries --- Developing countries --- Economic conditions. --- Developed countries - Economic conditions --- Developing countries - Economic conditions --- Finance: General --- Labor --- Public Finance --- Demography --- Social Security and Public Pensions --- Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits --- Private Pensions --- Economics of the Elderly --- Economics of the Handicapped --- Non-labor Market Discrimination --- Retirement --- Retirement Policies --- General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data) --- Population & demography --- Labour --- income economics --- Finance --- Health economics --- Pension spending --- Aging --- Pension reform --- Population aging --- Financial services industry --- Health --- United States
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Following the protest movements and radicalism of the late sixties, many affluent countries experienced lethal revolutionary terrorism. Groups like the Red Brigades in Italy and the Red Army Faction in Germany provoked political crises in their countries. Other affluent countries, however, did not experience this same kind of violence. This book offers a historical-comparative explanation of this cross-national variation, focusing on the development paths followed by countries during the interwar period. The countries that followed a non-liberal path (marked by anarchist terrorism, democratic breakdowns, civil wars, land inequality, non-liberal capitalism, and late industrialization) suffered lethal left-wing terrorism decades later. Terrorism is thus explained as a feature of the political and economic system. Drawing on several fields, including comparative politics, political economy, international relations, and historical sociology, this book offers novel hypotheses about the determinants of violent conflict.
Terrorism --- Radicalism --- Political violence --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Terror --- History --- Developed countries --- Advanced countries --- Advanced nations --- Developed nations --- Economically advanced countries --- Economically advanced nations --- First World --- Industrial countries --- Industrial nations --- Industrial societies --- Industrialized countries --- Industrialized nations --- Western countries --- Economic conditions --- Terrorism - Developed countries - History - 20th century --- Radicalism - Developed countries - History - 20th century --- Political violence - Developed countries - History - 20th century --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - 20th century
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In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some nations between the 1820's and 1960's, creating not just unprecedented material wealth but "flourishing"--meaningful work, self-expression, and personal growth for more people than ever before? Phelps makes the case that the wellspring of this flourishing was modern values such as the desire to create, explore, and meet challenges. These values fueled the grassroots dynamism that was necessary for widespread, indigenous innovation. Most innovation wasn't driven by a few isolated visionaries like Henry Ford and Steve Jobs; rather, it was driven by millions of people empowered to think of, develop, and market innumerable new products and processes, and improvements to existing ones. Mass flourishing--a combination of material well-being and the "good life" in a broader sense--was created by this mass innovation. Yet indigenous innovation and flourishing weakened decades ago. In America, evidence indicates that innovation and job satisfaction have decreased since the late 1960's, while postwar Europe has never recaptured its former dynamism. The reason, Phelps argues, is that the modern values underlying the modern economy are under threat by a resurgence of traditional, corporatist values that put the community and state over the individual. The ultimate fate of modern values is now the most pressing question for the West: will Western nations recommit themselves to modernity, grassroots dynamism, indigenous innovation, and widespread personal fulfillment, or will we go on with a narrowed innovation that limits flourishing to a few? A book of immense practical and intellectual importance, Mass Flourishing is essential reading for anyone who cares about the sources of prosperity and the future of the West.
Economic History --- Economics --- Developed countries --- Economic conditions --- Économie politique --- Développement économique --- Capitalisme --- Histoire --- Effets des innovations technologiques --- Technological innovations --- -Creative ability in business --- Corporate state --- 331.04 --- 331.100 --- 313 --- 338.043 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Self-realization --- -338.9 --- History, Economic --- Corporations (Corporate state) --- Corporatism --- Corporative state --- Corporativism --- State, Corporate --- Political science --- Syndicalism --- Fascism --- Functional representation --- Business creativity --- Business --- Success in business --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- Fulfillment (Ethics) --- Self-fulfillment --- Ethics --- Satisfaction --- Success --- Economic aspects --- Langdurige bewegingen. --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën). --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica. --- Social aspects --- Effets des innovations technologiques. --- Histoire. --- Économie politique. --- Economics. --- Economic history. --- Langdurige bewegingen --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Levenswijze en levensstandaard. Levensminimum. sociale indicatoren (Studiën) --- Technologische vooruitgang. Automatisering. Computers. Werkgelegenheid en informatica --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- Advanced countries --- Advanced nations --- Developed nations --- Economically advanced countries --- Economically advanced nations --- First World --- Industrial countries --- Industrial nations --- Industrial societies --- Industrialized countries --- Industrialized nations --- Western countries --- Economic development --- Social aspects. --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - 19th century --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - 20th century --- -Economic aspects
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Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by low fertility and ever-increasing life expectancy. These trends have prompted many to predict a gloomy future caused by an unprecedented economic burden of population aging. In response, industrialized nations will need to implement effective social and economic policies and programs. This is the final volume in a series of three. The papers included explore many examples and strengthen the basis for effective economic and social policies by investigating the economic, social, and demographic consequences of the transformations in the structures of population and family. These consequences include changes in economic behavior, both in labor and financial markets, and with regard to saving and consumption, and intergenerational transfers of money and care.
Age distribution (Demography) -- Developed countries. --- Developed countries -- Economic conditions. --- Economic development. --- Older people -- Economic conditions. --- Population aging -- Economic aspects. --- Population aging --- Older people --- Age distribution (Demography) --- Demography --- Business & Economics --- Economic aspects --- Economic conditions --- Economic aspects. --- Economic conditions. --- Developed countries --- Distribution, Age (Demography) --- Aging of population --- Aging population --- Aging society --- Demographic aging --- Graying (Demography) --- Greying (Demography) --- Social sciences. --- Geriatrics. --- Economic policy. --- Population. --- Demography. --- Social Sciences. --- Economic Policy. --- Geriatrics/Gerontology. --- Population Economics. --- Age --- Age groups --- Vital statistics --- Human population --- Human populations --- Population growth --- Populations, Human --- Economics --- Human ecology --- Sociology --- Malthusianism --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Economic nationalism --- Economic planning --- National planning --- State planning --- Planning --- National security --- Social policy --- Historical demography --- Social sciences --- Population --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene --- Population and Demography.
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The book provides an introduction for students and development professionals to mainstreaming children in international development and policy, focusing on children's 'voices' and childhood poverty, policy and practice.
Children -- Developed countries -- Economic conditions. --- Poor children -- Government policy -- Developed countries -- Case studies. --- Poor children -- Government policy -- Developed countries. --- Poverty -- Government policy -- Developed countries -- Case studies. --- Poverty -- Government policy -- Developed countries. --- Poverty. --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- Social Welfare & Social Work - General --- Developed countries --- Economic conditions. --- Poor children. --- Child welfare. --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Child protective services --- Child protective services personnel --- Children --- CPS (Child protective services) --- Humane societies --- Protection of children --- Family policy --- Public welfare --- Social work with children --- Social work with youth --- Children of the poor --- Economically disadvantaged children --- Poor children --- Charities --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Protection --- Economic conditions --- Sociology --- Child --- Development --- Evidence --- International --- Mainstreaming --- Policy --- Poverty --- Child poverty --- Childhood --- Millennium Development Goals --- Well-being
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"Based on rigorous analysis of the propaganda of five Western European separatist parties, this book provides in-depth examination of the 'nationalism of the rich, ' defined as a type of nationalist discourse that seeks to end the economic 'exploitation' suffered by a group of people represented as a wealthy nation and supposedly carried out by the populations of poorer regions and/or by inefficient state administrations. The book argues that the nationalism of the rich can be seen as a rhetorical strategy portraying independent statehood as a solution to the dilemma between solidarity and efficiency arisen in Western Europe since the end of the glorious thirties"--Provided by publisher.
Nationalism --- Rhetoric --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Political aspects --- Europe --- Catalonia (Spain) --- Flanders (Belgium) --- Italy, Northern --- Scotland --- Europe, Western --- Developed countries --- Northern Italy --- Advanced countries --- Advanced nations --- Developed nations --- Economically advanced countries --- Economically advanced nations --- First World --- Industrial countries --- Industrial nations --- Industrial societies --- Industrialized countries --- Industrialized nations --- Western countries --- West Europe --- Western Europe --- Politics and government --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements. --- Economic conditions --- Caledonia --- Scotia --- Schotland --- Sŭkʻotʻŭllandŭ --- Ecosse --- Škotska --- Great Britain --- Vlaanderen (Belgium) --- Région flamande (Belgium) --- Flemish Region (Belgium) --- Vlaams Gewest (Belgium) --- Flandre (Belgium) --- #SBIB:321H81 --- #SBIB:328H2154 --- #SBIB:323H510 --- #SBIB:328H2151 --- #SBIB:328H214 --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw : nationalisme, corporatisme, fascisme, nationaal socialisme, rechtsextremisme, populisme --- Instellingen en beleid: Spanje --- Belgische politieke cultuur en processen --- Instellingen en beleid: Italië --- Instellingen en beleid: Verenigd Koninkrijk --- National movements --- Italy: North --- Catalonia --- Flanders --- Rhetoric - Political aspects - Europe, Western - Case studies --- Europe - Politics and government - 1945 --- -Catalonia (Spain) - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Flanders (Belgium) - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Italy, Northern - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Scotland - History - Autonomy and independence movements --- Nationalism - Europe, Western - Case studies --- Europe, Western - Politics and government - Case studies --- Developed countries - Politics and government - Case studies --- Developed countries - Economic conditions - Case studies
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